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40 Times People Found Lowkey Horrifying Pictures From The Past And Just Had To Share Them Online (New Pics)
Chills run down your spine, the little hairs standing up as if to applaud a wonderful performance, all the while a beating drum plays in your ears, your heart picking up the pace. You stare unblinkingly, eyes wide, forehead scrunched up in flustered unknowing. Should you run? Should you hide? Should their smile be as wide?
A sense of the creeps is both unsettling and intriguing. It brings forth a sense of morbid curiosity, leading into a dark hole that is difficult to escape from. And so, dear readers, Bored Panda's back to bring you more of the creepiest pictures from the recent past, as shared by the Reddit community called Creepy Old Pics.
They’re joyful, they’re satisfying, and they make you question the reality you live in. What could be better? Make sure to upvote your favorites as you’re scrolling through this list. What’s the creepiest thing you’ve ever seen? Let us know in the comments below! But now, grab your teddy bear, turn off the lights, and let’s get into it!
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#1
Found This Old Photo Inside The Wall In The Attic
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#2
Penny Auction At Foreclosed Michigan Farm (1936). At Penny Auctions Farmers Would Conspire To Offer Low Bids, Resulting In A Low Return To The Creditor. The Final Buyer Would Then Return The Property To The Destitute Farmer Hangman Nooses Served As A Warning To Squirrely Bidders
#3
This Isn't How It Looked In My Memory-1980s
#4
Santa Got Ahold Of The Good Snow This Year
#5
Colorized Photo Of Rasputin With Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna, Her Children And Their Nurse, 1908
#6
My Wife Grew Up Staring At This Picture. No One Can Remember If There Was A Person Behind The Kids, Or A Trick Of The Light
#7
Patient Brutally Restrained In A Mental Institution, France Circa 1900
Marie Dahme 3 years ago
They used to institutionalize women even at the whim of her husband. Hysteria, rebelliousness, or even refusing to have sex with her husband. We’ve always been a patriarchal society unfortunately.
#8
A Suffragette Is Force-Fed In Hm Prison Holloway In The UK During Hunger Strikes For Women's Suffrage, Circa 1911
#9
Jacob Miller (1829-1917), Shot In The Head At Chickamauga In 1863 And Walked It Off
#10
A Baby Found During The Clean Up Of The Chernobyl Accident Is Pushed In A Carriage By A Liquidator, 1986
#11
On The Feast Of St. Nicholas In The Town Of Bad Mitterndorf, Austria. St Nicholas Parades Through The Village On A White Horse Followed By The Krampus, Who Warn The Kids To Be Good, Or Else
#12
Violet "Queen Of Sinking Ships" Jessop Who Was On The Olympic When It Crashed, Titanic When It Hit An Iceberg, And The Britannic When A Mine Sank It, All Within The Span Of 5 Years. Coincidence?
#13
1930’s Baby Rattle
#14
The Twins That Inspired The Twins Of Tim Burton's Miss Pergerine's Home For Peculiar Children, C. 1900s
Rabbit Of ill Portent 3 years ago
Those dudes freaked me the eff out in the movie and these dudes are doing the very same thing to me.
#15
Cleaning Day At A Church In Leipzig, Germany (1920)
#16
Denken Sie An Die Kinder
#17
Disney Sends This Guy Out Everytime Some Kid Talks About Bruno
#18
Vibration Therapy, A Treatment For Headaches In The 1890s
#19
New Year In A Psychiatric Hospital, Moscow, 1988. Photographer: Pavel Krivtsov
#20
Not Sure What Was Going On Here
Rabbit Of ill Portent 3 years ago
There's a Harry Potter and a sorting hat joke somewhere in this picture. It's 2:30AM for me right now so someone find the joke in this, I'm half delirious with insomnia
#21
Old Photo Of (Twins? Sisters?) With One Scratched Out. Cant Help But Wonder At The Context - Likely Late 1800's Early 1900's
Kristina Pelėda 3 years ago
Maybe photo were used in documents or something, so they scrached other person. In past people often used any photos for documents - at least there I live
#22
The Catholic Church With The Nazi Third Reich
#23
Ted Bundy With Carol Bartholomew As He Helped With The Dishes After A Birthday Party, 1975
Janis Wise 3 years ago
People like him is why I’m not afraid of superstition or monsters under the bed. The really dangerous creatures are right in the open and walk among us.
#24
The Mask Worn By Edward Paisnel, The Notorious 'Beast Of Jersey' When Attacking His Victims, C 1957
#25
Still From British Movie "First Men On The Moon" From 1919. Now A Lost Film
Rabbit Of ill Portent 3 years ago
Quick! Everyone! Get on my Nope Bus!!!! Next stop is Fukthatizan!!
#26
She Waits For The Second Coming
#27
Bizarre Old School Disney Cosumes
#28
My Grandpa And His Sister 1946
#29
Three French Circus Performers From Around 1900-1930
#30
Austro-Hungarian Sailors Wearing Anti-Flash Protection Gear, Designed To Protect The Wearer From Short-Duration Flame Exposure And Heat, 1916
#31
The Original Cast Of J.b. Priestley's 1939 Play "Johnson Over Jordan". It Is About A Dead Man Looking Over His Life From Limbo, And Requires The Cast To Wear Elaborate Masks
#32
Go To Sleep....if You Can
#33
Mole People?
#34
Reminds Me Of The Shining... 1910s
#35
"Man Shrouded In A Cloak Standing On A Tiled Floor" From The Clonbrock Collection Circa 1890
#36
Dressed As The Michelin Man, Pre -1920s
#37
A Trio Of Contortionists, London 1894
#38
Old Halloween Photo
#39
"Peregrinación" By Graciela Iturbide. Chalma, 1984
#40
Department Store Mannequins Wearing Disney Character Costumes, 1937
Scribbles & Scares 3 years ago
So two ghastly Mickeys, a terrifying Donald Duck, a wolf in a dressing gown and...... Two cows? Were there two cows that got killed off or something?
#41
The Kamloops Indian Residential School Ran By The Catholic Church (1937)
#42
My Guy Aint Mcfrickin' Around
#43
Child Labor Workers In The Early 1900's ;
#44
1957
Scribbles & Scares 3 years ago
For anyone else struggling to read (some words may be wrong, my eyes blurred!): You don't have to be grown-up to think breakfast is a pretty ghastly meal some mornings. Even five year old young ladies need a bowl full of fruit-colour, fruit-flavour Trix to change their morning outlook from grim to gay. When you're five (give or take a few years either way) you kind of fall in love with Trix and the way its bright fruit colours wink up at you through the milk. You become quite attached to the way that sparkly fruit flavour keeps demanding another spoonful, until pretty soon you're down to the bottom of the bowl. That's why Trix were born. To make good grain nourishment more fun. Mum note: How do you know what Trix can do, till you pour more?
#45
Lon Chaney In ''he Who Gets Slapped'' (1924)
#46
🟣 I Thought He Liked Shakes. 🟣
#47
Glasgow School Of Art Student Performance - Early 1900s
#48
Barney At One Of My Birthday Parties In The 90s
#49
Baby Cage - 1934
#50
Old Ronny
#51
Children Reaping The Harvest. Finland, 1930s. [563x725]
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#52
Audrey Hepburn Photographed By Richard Avedon In New York, 1967
#53
Father And His Twin Sister, Halloween Early 50's
#54
'andor Weininger As Clown' (Name Of The Photograph, Taken By Irene Bayer-Hecht), 1926
MarcyParlomerNerdGirlsRock 3 years ago
Thanks. No sleep for me tonight, and I shall check inside the walls, under the bed, and even inside the mattress before dawn…
#56
Strange Picture Of A Girl & Her Doll
#57
Circus Clown, 1934
#59
I Wouldn't Want To Find Myself Driving Next To This Unholy Trinity, Caught On Film In 1938
#60
𝔠𝔬𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔢
Shayne Randlett 3 years ago
Before Elf on a Shelf they had Feet on a Teat. Easy to see why it wasn't a big seller
#61
First {known} Photo Of A Human
#62
My Grandmother Was Once Hunted By Ed Gein
#63
Psychiatric Asylum - Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA (1870)
#64
Police Search Through Serial Killers Leonard Lake And Charles Ng's Property In Wilseyville, June 1985. The Bunker/Dungeon Where The Female Victims Were Held Is On The Right. Ng Was Already On The Run By Then As Lake Was Already Dead From Swallowing Cyanide While In Police Custody
Scribbles & Scares 3 years ago (edited)
They recorded the audio of their poor victims. I really feel for the officers who had to listen to those tapes. They were only caught because Ng was caught shoplifting
#65
Sad.....pic From Circa 1948
#66
Portrait Of The Dancer/Choregrapher, Bronislava Nijinska By Man Ray. 1922
#67
Weird Pumpkin Dude (From The Pearl And The Pumpkin)
#68
Bookmark Promoting The Novel *666* By *amityville Horror* Author Jay Anson. 1980
#69
Model Of A Plague Doctor
#70
Diane Arbus: 'Child With A Hand Grenade, Central Park', 1962
#71
Prussian Landwehrmann Tanning Rat Skins In A Dugout During Wwi. C. 1914-1916
#72
Mickey Mouse Club House Just Got A Whole Lot Sexier Guys ;)
#73
Halloween ‘77 🎃
#74
A Photo By Charles Van Schaick, Taken In A Small Turn-Of-The-Century Wisconsin Town
#75
"A Woman Fast Asleep With Her Head Hanging Down, A Devil Is Sitting On Her Stomach And A Horse Peeps Through A Curtain; Representing Her Nightmare. Stipple Engraving By M.j. Schmidt After J.h. Füssli (Fuseli)."
#76
Dripping Dolls's Heads In A Factory, Photographed By Merlyn Severn, 1947
ShaZam Beaubien 3 years ago
Nope .. nope ... nope ... Can you imagine being the first one opening and having to go through this room with the lights out ... until you can turn a light on?
#77
Roger Waters, 1980's
#78
Creepster Bunny
#79
Supper Heroes
#80
Ay, What The Frog Doin? Haha, Funny Vine Joke. I'm Sorry For That
Rabbit Of ill Portent 3 years ago
"Don't be nervous!" the giant frog said while standing above me
#81
The 'Face' We Show The World
#82
The Snake Woman Saite Layton, Cole Bros. Circus, 1947
#83
Scarecrows Playing Football, 1976
#84
Mark Coulthurst Stands On The Bow Of His Boat, The Investor, Early September 1982. After This Picture Was Taken, He Along With His Wife, Children And Four Crewmen Would Be Later Killed During The Night Of The 5th. Then The Boat Was Soon Found Engulfed In Flames Once The Fog Had Cleared
keighterz 3 years ago
The murders are still unsolved. They arrested one man but they had zero evidence against him. He ended up being released and to this day they have no answers. Pretty messed up considering the killer went back to the boat several times after the murders. They tried to sink the boat and when that didn’t work they set it on fire.
#85
The Michelin Man
#86
Cleaning Out My Grandma’s House - Some Old Halloween Costumes
#87
The Tinman, Dorothy, And The Scarecrow From The 1902 Stage Production Of The Wizard Of Oz
#88
Pagan Dancers From Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring, 1913
#89
A Sign Featuring A Grinning Peanut Is Held Up By A Jimmy Carter Supporter At The 1976 Democratic National Convention
Broad Panda 3 years ago
That mouth is Carter's mouth. He is a hero. In his 90s, still actively working for the betterment of American people.
#90
Older Picture Of A Clown Giving Us The Kubrick Stare Is A Bit Unnerving
#91
Adorable Then, Terrifying Now
#92
My Face When The Cereal Hits Different
#93
Some Family Members From Way Back In The Day!!
#94
A Very Unsettling Ticket Booth At Casino Pier In Seaside Heights, New Jersey (1978)
#95
Getting Wet Feet?
Saint Thomas 3 years ago
This is not an "old school pic", it's an Midjourney AI generated image.
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Fuxxy89 3 years ago
I don't get why people are scared of dolls. And assuming you never met John Wayne Gacey personally, I don't get clowns either. These are cool, don't get me wrong. But dolls and clowns are not scary. Like at all. The one of the poor woman one the mental institution, however...
Fuxxy89 3 years ago
I don't get why people are scared of dolls. And assuming you never met John Wayne Gacey personally, I don't get clowns either. These are cool, don't get me wrong. But dolls and clowns are not scary. Like at all. The one of the poor woman one the mental institution, however...
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